Genetics

On May 16th, the III Symposium of the DEGESCO Consortium on Dementia Genetics will be held in Málaga, in the context of the VI Málaga Alzheimer Conference, sponsored by CIBERNED and the Andalusian Institute of Neuroscience. During the DEGESCO symposium, the ongoing projects of the consortium will be brought together and new proposals will be … Read moreIII Symposium of the DEGESCO Consortium

The Sant Pau Memory Unit attended the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC 2018) that was held in Chicago between July 22nd and 26th 2018. This conference, the largest dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease, gathers researchers from all over the world that share their knowledge and advances in the field. Here is the list of communications … Read moreThe Sant Pau Memory Unit in the AAIC 2018 – Chicago

The Universitat Pompeu Fabra has granted the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award to the doctoral thesis in Biomedicine performed by Dr. Oriol Dols Icardo, entitled “Assessing the genetic overlap in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia”. This doctoral thesis was defended in December 2016. Dr. Oriol Dols Icardo investigated, through different genetic approximations (including second … Read moreDr. Oriol Dols has received the Doctoral School Ph.D. Special Award

On April 9th and 10th, Hospital de Sant Pau will host a meeting of 40 european experts in the study of the genetic bases of Alzheimer. This meeting, organized by Dr. Jordi Clarimón, will gather members of the Alzheimer Disease Exome Sequencing Consortium (ADES) and the European Alzheimer’s Disease DNA BioBank (EADB). Preliminary results will … Read moreSant Pau hosts a meeting of european experts on Alzheimer’s genetics